A 15-year-old Aurora boy was being held at the Kane County Youth Home on charges of auto theft after being police alleged he was driving a stolen car. Police said they attempted to stop the car at Garfield Avenue and View Street, but the car sped off. Police arrested the boy at Galena Boulevard and Hawthorne Court. When the boy stopped the car and got out, he left it in gear and the car rolled into a squad car, causing minor damage, police said. Police alleged that the boy stole the car by removing keys from a woman's purse.

Raymond A. Zimner, 70, of Hinsdale died Monday in Hinsdale Hospital. Born in Calumet City, Mr. Zimner served in the Army and was the owner of a courier service. Survivors include his wife, Hazel; two sons, Brian and David; and three sisters, Gertrude Gallatz, Phyllis Pierson and Helen Headley. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday in Elliston Funeral Home, 1st and Grant Streets, Hinsdale. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Hinsdale United Methodist Church, 55th Street and Garfield Avenue, Hinsdale.

Two area men were arrested after they allegedly got into a fight at a party at 295 Garfield Ave., police said. Paul C. Hermann, 18, of 1429 N. Pine Grove Ave., Round Lake Beach, allegedly hit another man who was talking with Hermann's girlfriend at the party in the early-morning hours of Sunday, police said. The victim of that attack, James W. Kawell, 18, who lives at the Garfield Avenue address, allegedly responded by throwing a pool ball through Hermann's car window, police said. Hermann was charged with battery, and Kawell was arrested for criminal damage to property, reports said.

Services for Carroll L. Griffith, 93, chairman of Griffith Laboratories, Alsip, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Hinsdale United Methodist Church, Garfield Avenue and 55th Street, Hinsdale. Mr. Griffith, a longtime Hinsdale resident, died Saturday in a hospital in Naples, Fla. A native of Chicago, Mr. Griffith was a 1914 graduate of Northwestern School of Pharmacy and served in the Army Medical Corps during World War I. He and his late father, Enoch, in 1919 founded Griffith Laboratories, an international company serving the food industry.

Burr Ridge will apply for a $210,000 federal Community Development Block Grant to provide water mains and Lake Michigan water to 61 homes now served by private wells. The water system would be installed on Garfield Avenue between 74th and 72d Streets; on Giddings Avenue, Hamilton Avenue and Elm Street between Frontage Road and 72d Street; on 72d and 74th Streets between Garfield and Park Avenues, and on 73d Street between Garfield Avenue and Elm Street. The grant would pay for most of the $320,000 estimated as the construction cost; residents would pay the balance through a special assessment of about $1,800 per house.

Though leaders of neighboring municipalities west of Hinsdale have joined that town's residents in their opposition to the widening of 55th Street, Hinsdale officials have recommended that a modified plan for the road's expansion be approved. "There's much more traffic between Illinois Highway 83 and Garfield Avenue than there is going west to Westmont or Downers Grove," said Trustee Richard Burridge, a member of Hinsdale's four-person Environment and Public Services Committee.

Village officials have approved approximately $900,000 of street repairs to be completed next summer as the third part of a three-year repavement program. The project will not include street widenings, said Village Engineer Philip Perna. Streets scheduled for repair include: Oakdale Avenue from Ridge Avenue to Diamond Lake Road; Garfield Avenue from Division Street to Hammond Street; Greenwood Avenue from Maple Avenue to Arbour Court, and Wildwood Avenue from Glendale Place to Maple Avenue.

Aurora Emergency Management Agency personnel Thursday closed two streets in a four-block area after workers for Utility Dynamics, a contractor installing a streetlight for the city, hit a 4-inch natural gas line, police and utility spokesmen said. Fire Department and Nicor Gas personnel evacuated one home as a precaution and informed other local residents of the incident, which occurred at about 10:48 a.m. on the east side of Highland Avenue, just north of Garfield Avenue. Nicor had closed off the line by 1:30 p.m. and expected to finish repairing it by 4 p.m., regional spokesman Tom Kallay said.

Village officials approved $1 million of street repairs for the coming roadwork season. Motor fuel tax funds will pay for the 2.1 miles of street improvements. Streets selected for repair this summer will wrap up a three-year program based on a 1992 pavement analysis of all the streets in the village, said village engineer Philip Perna. Repairs this summer will include: Arbour Court from Norton Avenue to Wildwood Avenue; Brice Avenue from Hawley Street to Dalton Avenue; Garfield Avenue from Division Street to Hammond Street; Glendale Place from Norton to Wildwood; Greenwood Avenue from Maple Avenue to Arbour; Oakdale Avenue from Ridge Avenue to Diamond Lake Road; Orchard Street from Seymour Avenue to Michael Avenue; Shaddle Avenue from Orchard to French Drive; Wildwood from Glendale to Maple Avenue; Woodlawn Drive from Illinois Highway 45 to Hawthorne Boulevard; and Midlothian Road sidewalk from Killarney Pass to Ambria Drive.